Washington Independent Review of Books

A Ribbon for Your Hair: Loss. More Loss. And How We (Sort of) Went On is a memoir of the unimaginable grief Stephen Policoff experienced with the loss of his wife to lung cancer and his elder daughter to the rare genetic disease Niemann-Pick type C (NPC). Polic...

Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author John Chu’s debut novel is part science fiction, part fantasy, and all emotion. Like much of Chu’s short fiction, The Subtle Art of Folding Space is a unique tale that explores family relationships, the nature of belonging, and the so...

These days, when you hear “witch hunt,” it likely doesn’t refer to the murderous persecutions that took place during the Early Modern Era in the United States and Europe. Now used to connote unfairness — or mere displeasure at being questioned at all — the words no longer carry the urgency and terror they did for their original targets.

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On September 10, 1987, Eddy Crane walked out of his home in working-class Baltimore with the family Rottweiler for another day at E&M Machinery, his trucking-parts business, and was never seen again. “That’s the night our family of four became a family of three, as if the kitchen table dropped a leg,” Kate Crane writes in

Calling all mystery and historical fiction fans! Join us for a special author panel focused on the craft of writing a good mystery! Jennifer Murphy (The Ghost Women), Jenny Adams (A Deadly Endeavor) and Lacey Dunham (The Belles) will join us in the bookstore to share a behind-the-scenes look at their processes, how they develop compelling stories no...